Gaza’s destroyed sewage system linked to ‘rare’ algae bloom shutting Israeli desalination plants: Five of Israel’s six water plants shut as scientists probe whether Gaza wastewater fuelled the bloom (Middle East Eye, 2026-09-05)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-destroyed-sewage-system-linked-rare-algae-bloom-shutting-israel-desalination-plants
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>> In an alarming development, the algae bloom spread along Israel’s Mediterranean coast, disrupting seawater desalination plants that provide much of the country’s drinking water [at least 65 percent], CNN reported, citing Mekorot, Israel’s national water company.

>> Gaza’s wastewater treatment system has been heavily damaged during the war, with some 40,000 cubic metres of untreated wastewater reportedly flowing into the sea each day, …

>> “In our case, I currently have no other explanation except a pollution source in the southern Gaza Strip,” [head of Ben-Gurion University’s Climate Change Laboratory Avner] Gross said to Ynet…

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